Getech, providers of natural resources exploration data and information expertise, has created two interactive ArcGIS Online maps that allow users to explore an increadible amount of geological information for any region across the globe. The first of the maps allows you to explore the world’s largest library of gravity and magnetic data coverage through a…

The 2017 Esri User Conference (UC) gets underway in San Diego next week, and Esri has released its annual UC Q&A. The Q&A sets the scene for the UC, provides information about Esri’s strategy and also answers common questions about Esri’s products and services. There are over 300 questions in the Q&A so, to save…

New Oil & Gas Benchmark Now Live Exprodat has been measuring the petroleum industry’s geospatial performance since 2012. From GIS use cases to governance, spatial data management, skills and support, we so far have evaluated and compared the capabilities of about 50 oil and gas organisations. Much has changed over the past five years, of…

Reports of the death of ArcSDE are greatly exaggerated! ArcSDE is still very much part of the Esri platform What is ArcSDE? Initially a standalone database named Spatial DataBase Engine (SDBE), acquisition by Esri in 1996 saw it rebranded to Arc Spatial Database Engine (ArcSDE). ArcSDE acted as a form of middleware, an interface…

Exprodat, the oil and gas ArcGIS platform specialist, Esri Gold Partner and Getech group company, has always made it part of the company ethos to support their staff in pursuing extra-curricular activities and raising money for worthy causes. So once again, an intrepid team of four Exprodaters set out to raise money for the charity,…

During this year’s Esri Business Partner Conference in Palm Springs, California the E380 Video team sat down with Exprodat’s Technical Director, Chris Jepps to find out more about the company’s award-winning Story Map.

There’s one week to go before the 2016 Esri User Conference (UC) in San Diego, and Esri has released its annual UC Q&A, which sets the scene for the UC and provides answers to common questions about Esri’s products and services. This year the PDF download numbers 199 pages (up from 169 last year); so,…

By this stage you’re probably wanting to know who’s taken out the first prize in our inaugural story map competition. In my previous two blogs I went through our honourable mentions (including our third place winner) and our runner-up. If you haven’t already give these a look. So, without further ado: To the victor go…

Welcome back to the second installation of our Story Map Competition blog. If you’ve missed them, have a look at my previous blog on the origins of the competition and a discussion of some of our notable entries. Our silver prize winner In 2nd place we have Significant UK Offshore Discoveries and Fields by Simon…